Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Problem compiling vmlinux.lds.S

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Reid Spencer <RSp...@do...>:

> I didn?t modify any of the build environment code. However, I did
> reconfigure several times and consequently removed some
> tmp/.done_build_* files to get added things to build again (instead
> of being skipped).  It would be nice if build.sh did that for you
on
> ?menuconfig? if the .config file already exists and you add
> something that has an existing tmp/.done_build_* file.  I might
> prepare a patch for that unless its already fixed in 1.3

No it's not fixed, patches are always welcome.

> My build host system is:   Linux dev 2.6.24-19-server #1 SMP Wed Jun  
> 18 14:44:47 UTC 2008
> x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy  I don?t have SELinux,  
> Exec-Shield, GRSecurity or PAX on the build
> host Nothing special here .. can I build on a 64-bit host?

I build on a 64 bit host.
Linux pc-1 2.6.22.13-0.3-default #1 SMP 2007/11/19 15:02:58 UTC x86_64  
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
openSUSE 10.3 (X86-64)

> My lfssystem was unpacked after downloading from here:
ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/os/linux/distributions/devil-linux/devel/sources/lfssystem-for-DL-1.0_and_up/lfssystem-cvs-20030127-i486-stripped.tar.bz2
>
> However, please note that the sources/1.2 directory on that FTP
> server are *WRONG* (different from ftp.hotze.com[1]) so I?m
> wondering if the lfssystem is broken too? BTW, how long before the  
> main FTP server is functioning again?
> I?d like to ?update_src? but every time I do (and point it to
> #1), it just fails on connection and keeps retrying.

Serge has a few changes to 1.3 pending, one of them the 2.6.26 Kernel.
I'd wait until he has uploaded them and then try again.
It's sometimes very useful to start over with "make mrproper", I  
usually even wipe out the lfssystem to have everything clean.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
http://www.devil-linux.org


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